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    Mary Queen of Scots
    Mary Queen of Scots
    Mary Queen of Scots
    Audiobook25 hours

    Mary Queen of Scots

    Written by Antonia Fraser

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik

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    She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head.

    Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I.

    Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781977371737
    Mary Queen of Scots
    Author

    Antonia Fraser

    Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature. Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots; King Charles II; The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize; Marie Antoinette: The Journey; Perilous Question; The King and the Catholics; and The Wives of Henry VIII.  Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up  in 2015. Fraser's The Case of the Married Woman is available from Pegasus Books. She lives in London. 

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    • 5/5
      Remarkable bio of a remarkable monarch, and beautifully read. Highly recommended.

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    • 4/5
      This was the first book about Mary Queen of Scots that wasn't boring. I still think Mary was an idiot but the book was good.
    • 5/5
      Fraser's biography of Mary Queen of Scots is both exhaustive and entertaining to read. She details the life of Mary chronologically, starting with her birth (including some background on her father and mother) through her childhood in France, her brief reign as Queen of France, and her departure for Scotland where she had technically been Queen since the age of 9 months. In Scotland Fraser studies the dynamics of a staunchly Catholic Queen trying to rule a newly Protestant country. Mary asked to be able to worship in private but never tried to make alliances to overthrow the Protestants and accepted their counsel. Her reign in Scotland is full of turmoil, especially after she marries Henry, Lord Darnley. His murder and the subsequent events (her marriage to Bothwell and imprisonment in Scotland) are gone through in detail to dispel the rumors that have abounded since this happened in the 1500s. The third half of Mary's life is her imprisonment in England. Fraser examines the various plots, real or imagined, to free Mary and her adoption by Catholics as a martyr. Of course, Mary ends up being beheaded at Queen Elizabeth's order after a sham of a trial which is also explored at length. I thought this was an excellent biography. I found it highly readable but scholarly at the same time. Recommended to anyone who like historical biographies and/or British history.
    • 3/5
      At sixteen, Mary wasQueen of France and Scotland.She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair.I think her life was a stormy life.Becausepeople is rich and high rank, people is not always happy.At the end, she was executed.I was very surprised.When Mary was married to her husband, Mary was only 14!!
    • 5/5
      1044 Mary Queen of Scots, by Antonia Fraser (read 7 Mar 1970) This is an excellent biography. I in 1960 read a biography of Mary by Maurice Baring, but it was undocumented and I did not particularly like it. But this book reads so easily, is pleasingly pro-Mary, and really was a joy to read. Mary was born Dec 8, 1542, at Linlithgow in Scotland, daughter of James V of Scotland and his wife Mary of Guise. On Dec 14, 1542, James V died and Mary became sovereign queen of Scotland. On April 24, 1558, Mary was married to the dauphin of France. On July 10, 1559, King Henry II of France died and Mary's husband, Francis II, became king of France. On Dec 5, 1560, Francis II died. On Aug 19, 1561, Mary returned to Scotland, after an absence of 13 years. On July 29, 1565, she married Henry Darnley (grandson of Margaret Tudor, who was a sister of Henry VIII). He was murdered at Kirk's Field on Feb 10, 1567. Before that, on June 19, 1566, the future James I had been born of her marriage. On May 15, 1567.Mary married Bothwell. On May 16, 1568, she entered England, where she was imprisoned till Feb 8, 1587, when she was executed. At a funeral service on Mar 12, 1588, in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Renaud de Beaune, archbishop of Bourges, gave an oration which so impressed me so much I copied part of it in my post-reading note.
    • 3/5
      A successful popular biography. Perhaps more synmpathetic to Mary than I am.
    • 5/5
      An excellent and detailed historical biography,
    • 4/5
      Fraser hit a gold mine when she wrote this book. She managed to produce a work that is scholarly enough to gain and retain academic respect and yet readable and popular to the reader outside of academia. No doubt some of this is attributable to the subject herself.